Niels Flindt Koelmeyer
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since October 8, 2021
Niels is an experienced product designer, leading end-to-end design projects across various industries and working with a wide range of companies, from startups to established corporations. He has strong UX foundations, effective process planning and execution, confidence in the entire development cycle, and advanced prototyping skills, including motion, handling user inputs, voice control, and building websites. He's certified by different institutions, including the Design Sprint Academy.
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Maido
- Designed five landing pages as part of the client rollout into the UK market.
- Completely redesigned customer journeys and interface for parcel locker interfaces across the EU and UK.
- Led the mobile design efforts across key consumer-facing sites.
Senior Product Designer
iTech
- Helped design and launch +10 pages across three markets—US, Latin America, and EU.
- Led several design discovery processes into a core user segment and validated concepts against them.
- Designed and prototyped an interactive games schedule and bet calculator and tested against the identified customer group.
Senior Product Designer
MyTutor
- Implemented a new payment model and designed a new checkout flow that dramatically improved the customer retention rate.
- Revamped an interactive whiteboard product based on extensive design discovery and problem framing.
- Led a design project the resulted in an auto-matching feature that completely short-circuited problems for the business.
- Redesigned MyTutor's design system from the ground up following a rebrand.
- Ran +30 projects during my time at the company, contributing significantly to the company's success.
- Designed, built, and launched MyTutor's first custom marketing page.
Freelance Product Designer
CrowdJustice
- Designed and devised core user flows for the company's first lawyer-facing product. That product eventually turned into a company in its own right, Legl.
- Designed a new marketing page, including developing a new visual language for the company.
- Conducted extensive conceptual work around the pledge flow using interactive prototyping with Framer Classic.
Product Designer
Zendesk
- Led the design efforts to help launch an article import feature to the Zendesk Guide product.
- Built an onboarding flow as part of a multi-product, multi-national design effort to onboard Zendesk bundle users to its full service.
- Collaborated closely with the design systems team to help add interaction and motions to their design system.
- Conducted extensive discovery work, including a full design sprint and user validation rounds behind an undisclosed feature.
Product Designer
Saxo.com
- Designed an online text editor for the company's user group.
- Designed and author-specific marketing platform for self-published authors.
- Revamped the company's core publishing journey from the ground up.
Certifications
Webflow Certification Exam, Layout Level 1
Webflow
Problem Framing Training
Design Sprint Academy
JavaScript for Designers
SuperHi
Foundational HTML, CSS + JavaScript
SuperHi
Learn UI Course
Learn UI
Design 101 Course
Design Lab
The Complete Product Management Course
Udemy
Skills
Tools
ProtoPie, Miro, Usertesting.com, Figma, Framer X, Adobe Analytics, Sketch, InVision, InVision Studio, Framer Prototyping, Jira, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Hotjar, Zeplin, Mailchimp, Google Docs, Flow, After Effects CC
Platforms
Webflow, Webflow CMS, Dropbox, Mobile
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Other
UI Design, Lean UX, Design Thinking, User Research, Notion, Design Sprints, Research, Interactive UI, Quantitative Research, UI Motion, User Validation, User Testing, Remote User Testing, Mapping, Journey Mapping, Story Mapping, Prototyping, Content Strategy, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), User Validation Testing, Checkout, User Retention, Card Payments, UX Flows, Product Design, Web Design, Responsive, Product Management, Framer, Abstracts, Social Media Marketing (SMM), DataViz, Landing Pages, Acquisitions, Web Marketing, User Journeys, Websites, UX Design, Material UI, Remote Work, Influencer Marketing, Learning, Educational Videos, UX Branding, UX Workshops, Workshops, UX Research, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Online Payments, Booking UX, eCommerce
Experience
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